(La Porte, IN) - The owner of a local funeral home could see some time in jail.

 

Casmir Pulaski is charged with Class B misdemeanor battery.

 

According to court documents, he allegedly made physical contact with a female funeral director on August 29 at his Lakeview Funeral Home and Crematory on Johnson Road, just off U.S. 35.

 

The 33-year-old woman told investigators she contacted him about some discounts a family of a deceased individual claimed he promised them.

 

Later that afternoon, the woman told police he came up a flight of stairs, put his arms out to the side so she could not go further down the stairs, and verbally abused her.

 

According to court documents, the woman said he bumped her in the chest with his chest, pushed her slightly, and smacked some papers out of her hands. The woman claimed it wasn’t the first time she had similar encounters with the 55-year-old Pulaski in her ten years at the funeral home.

 

If convicted, Pulaski could receive an up to six-month jail sentence.

 

Pulaski had his funeral director’s license suspended for one year by the state funeral board in April 2021. The license suspension was for not reporting previous crimes he had been charged with on his license renewal application.

 

Those unreported crimes involved allegations related to drugs, public intoxication, and trespassing for hunting on private property.